Monday, 20 June 2016

IZE IYAMU WINS EDO PDP PRIMARY

A former
Secretary to the State Government, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has been declared
the winner of the Peoples Democratic Party gubernatorial primary held at the
Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, the state capital.

Ize-Iyamu
polled a total of 584 votes to defeat his two other opponents.

The other
aspirants, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen and Solomon Edebiri, had 91 and 38 votes to
come second and third, respectively.

Ize-Iyamu,
who was the state campaign coordinator of former President Goodluck Jonathan in
the 2015 presidential election, was declared as the winner by the Chairman of
the PDP Primary Committee and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, at about
4pm.

Umahi was
accompanied by the Governors of Delta and Gombe States, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa
and Ibrahim Dakwambo.

However,
both Iduoriyekemwen and Edebiri staged a walkout prior to the announcement of
the results.